Yoga and meditation provide health benefits. Meditation involves focusing intensely on a single object to clear the mind of extraneous thoughts, which is difficult but can be learned over time. The eight limbs of yoga include physical poses, breathing exercises, withdrawing senses, and meditation, with meditation seen as the highest point. Regular meditation can help reduce stress and anxiety, lower blood pressure, and improve concentration and mental clarity.

1. Yoga and meditation

2. As a part of lifeYoga is developing as a part of life. It is a way that you can integrate body poses and breathing exercises with added meditation to give a peace of mind to have peace with the world. Meditation comes from intense concentration, where the individual focuses so thoroughly on a single object that he or she thinks of nothing besides his or her awareness of that object (Some religions may find that their idea of prayer could fall under this definition). Yoga will take things a little bit further by making meditation the highest point of the Eight Limbs of Yoga.

3. TheeightlimbsThese "eight limbs" define Yoga as a lifestyle:your attitude to the world around you is followed by your attitudes towards yourself,physical posturing, breathing exercises, withdrawing the senses, concentrating, contemplating, and finally enlightenment. You will go into an state of bliss that will result in the use and development of the other seven. Meditation combines withdrawing the senses, concentrating, and contemplating to be the final state that can be accomplished before bliss.

4. ThebenefitsAt any rate, meditation calms the mind and offers a number of health benefits even before enlightenment. With regular mediation will help reduce all the stress and anxiety. It will also lower your blood pressure and it will decrease your risk of a heart attack. It can improve concentration, clarity of thought, and release your creative side.

5. Meditation really is not easy, clearing the mind of extraneous thought is difficult. Learning how to do meditation will take some time and hard work You will want to sit somewhere with your back and head straight, to start out.You will find that you will want to learn some basic breathing exercises first to help you. You will then want to close your eyes, breathe in through your noses and exhale through your mouth.You will want to focus on your breath. You will be able to get cool air to enter through and the warm air leaves. You will want to make sure that you focus on the way that you breath. You will want to redirect all of your wondering thoughts and then just focus on the warm air leaving. You should start with some short meditations that last a few minutes. Most beginners will start counting their breaths so that they can focus on the breathing.